Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:07:00 GMT
but if true would be interesting. not that there is any way to tell… read the whole thing and ye shall understand… so sayeth the spooneybarger…
Small-town people of modest means and limited education are not fixated on cultural issues. Rather, it is affluent, college-educated people living in cities and suburbs who are most exercised by guns and religion. In contemporary American politics, social issues are the opiate of the elites.
Posted by spooneybarger
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:12:00 GMT
A federal jury today convicted the former mayor of Newark, Sharpe James, of fraud for conspiring to sell city-owned properties to a former girlfriend, who quickly flipped them and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits.
The former girlfriend of Mr. James, Tamika Riley, was also found guilty. Under federal guidelines both could face about seven or eight years in prison.
Posted by spooneybarger
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:56:00 GMT
If Mr. Spitzer were to resign, Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson would serve out the remainder of his term. Mr. Paterson, who is legally blind, would become the first black governor of New York. State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican, would assume the duties of the lieutenant governor.
just think… joe bruno, one step by a blind man off the curb into traffic away from being governor…
Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:26:00 GMT
For (Ron) Paul, everything comes back to money, including Iraq. “No matter how much you love the empire,” he says, “it’s unaffordable.” Wars are expensive, and there has been a tendency throughout history to pay for them by borrowing. A day of reckoning always comes, says Paul, and one will come for us. Speaking this spring before the libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation in Reston, Va., he warned of a dollar crisis. “That’s usually the way empires end,” he said. “It wasn’t us forcing the Soviets to build missiles that brought them down. It was the fact that socialism doesn’t work. Our system doesn’t work much better.”
Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:15:00 GMT
Multiple indications of vote fraud are beginning to pop up regarding the New Hampshire primary elections. Roughly 80% of New Hampshire precincts use Diebold machines, while the remaining 20% are hand counted. A Black Box Voting contributor has compiled a chart of results from hand counted precincts vs. results from machine counted precincts. In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%. In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%, which closely matches the scientific polls that were conducted leading up to the election. Another issue is the Republican results from Sutton precinct. The final results showed Ron Paul with 0 votes in Sutton. The next day a Ron Paul supporter came forward claiming that both she and several of her family members had voted for Ron Paul in Sutton. Black Box Voting reports that after being asked about the discrepancy Sutton officials decided that Ron Paul actually received 31 votes in Sutton, but they were left off of the tally sheet due to ‘human error.’
Posted by spooneybarger
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:37:00 GMT
you are so smart. only you aren’t. and then the education first lady’s husband calls you out:
“There are good people running,” continued the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has made his foreign policy credentials a centerpiece of his long shot presidential bid. “But to say Musharraf is up for election! Musharraf was elected — fairly or unfairly — president six months ago. It’s about a parliamentary election!”
Clinton’s comments came in an interview with ABC Sunday, in which she said, “[Musharraf] could be the only person on the ballot. I don’t think that’s a real election.”
The New York senator also made similar comments during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last week, saying then, ””If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow.”
Posted by spooneybarger
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:56:00 GMT
it makes it much easier to fuck them. o wait, that is south african politicians not american ones, my bad….
Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could “pose a dangerous public health risk.”
Posted by spooneybarger
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:28:00 GMT
Cary, North Carolina is the latest city to move to instant runoff voting and have an extremely positive experience—see this exit poll. Some key findings:
82% found IRV “very easy” to understand, and an additional 14% said it was “somewhat easy to understand”—a total of 96% saying it was not hard to understand
Of those with a preference between IRV and the former runoff system,72% supported IRV
Quoote: “The study found no significant differences between different types of voters in their understanding or preference for IRV: whites and non-whites, males and females, lower- and higher-income voters all evaluated IRV roughly equally.”
In the one race was an instant runoff was triggered, 92% of voters in the first round cast a valid vote in the final round. Given that this was a down-ballot race, with a hotly contested race for mayor decided in the first round, it was certainly higher turnout than would have occurred with a traditional runoff. It also acted as meaningfuol campaign finance reform, as candidates have been spending a lot money in Cary elections and would have to spend money in the runoff.
